Word: propse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scenery and props are all in readiness for the premiere of "Not New, Later", the eighty second annual production of the Hasty Pudding Club, which is to be given for the graduates in the club house tonight.
The Circus. A little ridiculous tramp, very hungry and without funds, was standing beside a pickpocket. The pickpocket grabbed from a rich man a watch, a wallet, saw that he had been observed, dropped the wallet & watch into the little tramp's pocket, slunk off. Pursued by the pickpocket...
Along the front of the main wing and in front of the rear ailerons, spectators found a tiny curved plane when the machine landed. Automatically extending itself by air pressure on the wing, the enlarged surface grips the air when the plane stalls; props it; forbids the wing dip which...
Backstage in "Sunny" land at the Colonial his life endangered by a maze of ropes, "props" and the frantic haste of Herculean property men constructing the "S. S. Triumphant", his wits distracted by the Eight Marilyn Miller Cocktails rushing from the spotlight to their respective dressing rooms and the thunderous...
Back in the gay '90s when a horse was a horse, and mere man's civilization revolved about a centre of equine transportation, white wings were society's props. Archie Inch was a white wing; so was Archie's father; so was Archie's grandfather...